Dr. Edwin Lyman became president of Nuclear Control Institute in June 2002. He earned a doctorate in theoretical physics from Cornell University in 1992, where he was an A.D. White Scholar, and was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University's Center for Energy and Environmental Studies from 1992 to 1995.  Dr. Lyman joined the Institute's staff in 1995 as scientific director.  His research focuses on security and environmental issues associated with the management of nuclear materials.   He has published numerous articles in journals including The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and Science and Global Security.  He is an active member of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management.  From 1997-1998, he participated in the Processing Needs Assessment conducted by the Department of Energy's Nuclear Material Stabilization Task Group.

Sharon Tanzer is the Institute's vice president and a member of the Board of Directors. She was co-editor of Averting a Nuclear Arms Race in Latin America (Macmillan, 1991), the proceedings of the Institute's 1989 Montevideo conference. She was rapporteur and editor of the Tritium Factor, (Nuclear Control Institute/American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1989), the proceedings of a 1988 nuclear arms control workshop co-sponsored by NCI and the Academy. She was also project coordinator for the Institute's International Task Force on Prevention of Nuclear Terrorism. She has organized and participated in the Institute's meetings and briefings on nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism issues in Europe, India, Japan, and Latin America.

Ms. Tanzer received her Bachelor of Arts degree in history, cum laude, from Barnard College in 1962. She spent the following year as a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Bordeaux, France, and then earned a master's degree in European history from Stanford University in 1964.

Her responsibilities include the Institute's initiatives in Germany and on EURATOM and matters relating to the transport of nuclear materials and nuclear waste.

Steven Dolley is the Institute's research director. He joined the Institute staff in June 1991. From 1988 to 1991 he was an Instructor in communications and debate at Bates College and the University of Vermont, where his principal focus was on arms control issues. Mr. Dolley is a 1984 honors graduate of Bates College and pursued a masters degree in communications at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published articles in the Journal of the American Forensic Association.

Mr. Dolley is co-author with Paul Leventhal of the Institute's report, "A Japanese Strategic Uranium Reserve: A Safe and Economic Alternative to Plutonium," which was published in Science and Global Security. As the Institute's research director, Mr. Dolley responds to a wide range of inquiries about nuclear programs in Europe and Japan. He also monitors U.S. government programs relating to plutonium disposition, and interacts with grassroots organizations and the Executive Branch concerning them. He also authors and co-authors the Institute's issue briefs and background papers on such subjects as the North Korean nuclear crisis.

Paul Leventhal founded the Nuclear Control Institute in 1981 and served as its president for 21 years prior to his retirement in June 2002.  Mr. Leventhal now serves as Advisor and President Emeritus.  Prior to founding NCI, Mr. Leventhal held senior staff positions in the United States Senate on nuclear power and proliferation issues.

He has prepared four books for the Institute and has lectured in a number of countries on nuclear issues, including as Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University's Global Security Programme.

Mr. Leventhal organized the Institute's International Task Force on Prevention of Nuclear Terrorism, its conference in South America on averting a nuclear arms race between Argentina and Brazil, a coalition of eminent U.S. scientists and diplomats seeking a halt in further production of nuclear-weapon materials, and a working group of public interest organizations in Washington on nuclear proliferation issues.

He served as Special Counsel to the Senate Government Operations Committee, l972-1976, and as Staff Director of the Senate Nuclear Regulation Subcommittee, l979-1981. He was responsible for the investigations and legislation that resulted in enactment of two landmark nuclear laws---the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, replacing the Atomic Energy Commission with separate regulatory and promotional agencies, and the Nuclear NonProliferation Act of 1978, establishing stricter controls on U.S. nuclear trade to combat the spread of nuclear weapons. He also served as director of the Senate Special Investigation of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident, 1979-1980, and prepared the "lessons learned" legislation enacted in 1980 to require preventive measures and emergency planning for future accidents.

Mr. Leventhal was a Research Fellow at Harvard University's Program for Science and International Affairs, 1976-1977, concentrating on nuclear weapons proliferation under a grant from the Ford Foundation.

He served as Assistant Administrator for Policy and Planning at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 1977-1978.

Mr. Leventhal came to Washington in 1969 as Press Secretary to Senator Jacob K. Javits (RN.Y.) after a decade of political and investigative reporting for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, New York Post and Newsday. In l972, he served as Congressional Correspondent for National Journal before returning to Capitol Hill to pursue legislative and investigative responsibilities.

He holds a bachelor's degree in government, magna cum laude, from Franklin and Marshall College. The college presented him its Alumni Medal in 1988 for distinguished professional accomplishment and contributions to society, and an honorary doctor of laws degree in 2001 before he delivered that years commencement address. He holds a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is married and has two sons.

Alan Kuperman is a senior policy analyst at the Institute, and has focused on the U.S. program to eliminate use of highly enriched uranium fuel in research reactors. Previously, he was legislative director for Congressman Charles Schumer and administrative assistant to Congressman James Scheuer. In 1987, as the Institute's issues director, he co-authored an NCI report that disclosed plans to proceed with air shipment of plutonium to Japan in the absence of a crashproof shipment cask. He is a graduate of Harvard College.

Mr. Kuperman supervises NCI's efforts on behalf of the U.S. reduced enrichment program.

Eldon V.C. Greenberg advises the Institute on legal matters relating to U.S. nuclear non-proliferation law. He is a partner in the law firm of Garvey Schubert & Barer. He has served as general counsel for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, deputy general counsel for the Agency for International Development, and staff attorney for the Center for Law and Social Policy.

Mr. Greenberg's legal analysis of the U.S. nuclear cooperation agreement with Japan provided the basis for challenges of the agreement by both foreign affairs committees in Congress and by the Institute and resulted in "clarifications" of the agreement by the Administration with respect to U.S. rights and obligations under the Treaty. Mr. Greenberg also advises the Institute on nuclear export law and regulations. He has intervened successfully on behalf of the Institute in a number of proceedings before the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

The analyses by Mr. Greenberg of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the U.S.-EURATOM agreement have laid the groundwork for the Institute's initiatives on these matters. He will continue to play a key role in these and other legal aspects of the Institute's program.